In a recent interview with AARP, Lorraine Bracco, who played Tony Soprano’s psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi, shared that she is embracing dating after turning 70.
“The Sopranos” star Lorraine Bracco is embracing dating after turning 70.
During a recent interview with AARP, the actress, who played Tony Soprano’s psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi, on the hit HBO series, shared an update on her love life and revealed the qualities that she finds most attractive in a potential partner.
“I’m single, and I’m sure someone will arrive,” Bracco said.
“I believe in love,” she continued. “What do I look for in a man? A sense of humor is extremely important. And I like a guy who’s sure of himself.”
“I’m sure of myself, so I want him to be rock steady,” Bracco added.
The “Goodfellas” star was previously married twice. Her first marriage was to French hair salon owner Daniel Guerard, whom she met while she was working as a model in Paris. The two tied the knot after she learned that she was pregnant.
“Basically, he said, ‘Well, what do you want to do?’” Bracco recalled during a 2006 interview with ABC News.
“And I said, ‘Well, where I come from, you get married, and you have the child.’ And he very happily said, ‘OK. Let’s do it‘,” she remembered.
Bracco and Guerard married in 1979 and welcomed their daughter Margaux Guerard that year. However, they went on to divorce in 1982.
Following her divorce from Guerard, Bracco began dating Oscar-nominated actor Harvey Keitel. The actress that Keitel was “very intense.”
“I was seduced,” she recalled.
Bracco and Keitel, who are parents to daughter Stella, 39, were in a relationship for 11 years. The two split in 1993 after Bracco admitted to having an affair with her “A Talent for the Game” co-star Edward James Olmos, whom she married the following year.
“He hated me for it. I disgusted him,” Bracco told ABC of confessing to Keitel about the affair. “That was the beginning of the end. And I knew that. And maybe it was my way, my very immature un-Dr. Melfi-ish way to end that relationship.”
After their romance ended, Bracco and Keitel engaged in a bitter custody battle over Stella. Bracco was eventually awarded sole custody of their daughter, but the years-long dispute left her owing $2 million in legal fees. It also took a toll on Bracco’s marriage to Olmos, and the two called it quits in 2002.
